HE. Well, let us take that calmly. Let us go to the theatre as if
nothing had happened. and tell him when we come back. Now or
three hours hence: to-day or to-morrow: what does it matter,
provided all is done in honor, without shame or fear?

SHE. What did you get tickets for? Lohengrin?

HE. I tried; but Lohengrin was sold out for to-night. [He takes
out two Court Theatre tickets].

SHE. Then what did you get?

HE. Can you ask me? What is there besides Lohengrin that we two
could endure, except Candida?

SHE [springing up] Candida! No, I won't go to it again, Henry
[tossing the flower on the piano]. It is that play that has done
all the mischief. I'm very sorry I ever saw it: it ought to be
stopped.

HE [amazed] Aurora!

SHE. Yes: I mean it.

HE. That divinest love poem! the poem that gave us courage to
speak to one another! that revealed to us what we really felt for
one another! That--

SHE. Just so. It put a lot of stuff into my head that I should